, The Register 2005-10-11
Last week Daniel Cuthbert was convicted of breaking the Computer Misuse Act, fined £400, and ordered to pay £600 in costs. As an IT security consultant, it will be a long time before Cuthbert's reputation is restored and it is possible he will never work in the industry again.
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Manipulating the URL is a very common, and as far as I know legitimate, technique. Say that someone passes me a link to a story (which itself does not contain other links). I start removing the right-hand side of the URL until you can get more information. Occasionally this will result in a 403 message, but does that mean it is illegal? Is there just something special about using .. (the Unix method of going up to a higher directory)?
Something does not smell right about this!
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